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+Revision history for constant
+
+1.33 2015.04.30 RJBS (Ricardo SIGNES)
+ [CODE] Updated from bleadperl:
+ - Stop using vars.pm
+ - Allow package name in ‘use constant’ constants
+ - Remove bug-inducing compile-time checking of constant values
+ - Make elements of list consts read-only
+
+1.27 2013.03.21 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [CODE] Updated from bleadperl:
+ - Remove a reference to a non-existent module (Karl Williamson)
+ - Make utf8 downgrading version dependent in order to avoid
+ unconditional loading of utf8_heavy.pl (Brad Gilbert)
+
+1.25 2013.01.19 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [CODE] Updated from bleadperl:
+ - Remove 5.6-isms (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+
+1.24 2013.01.07 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [CODE] Updated from bleadperl:
+ - Disable the UTF8 downgrade when unnecessary (Father Chrysostomos)
+ - Restore compatibility with Perl 5.8 (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ - Skip t/utf8.t on Perl before 5.8.4 (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [DIST] Perl-RT #114050: Added meta-information in Makefile.PL to
+ reflect that the module is maintained by P5P.
+
+1.21 2011.04.18 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) #PerlQA2011
+ [CODE] Updated from bleadperl:
+ - Make Unicode constants under use utf8 work again (Father Chrysostomos)
+ [TESTS] Make tests pass under old Perls.
+
+1.20 2011.04.16 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni) #PerlQA2011
+ [CODE] Updated from bleadperl:
+ - [perl #68640] Wrong error for undef constant name (Zefram).
+ [DIST] CPAN-RT #66727: Add explicit configure_requires to Build.PL
+ (David Golden).
+
+1.19 2009.09.12 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [CODE] Optimisation: Avoid unnecessary flushing of the caller
+ package's MRO cache (Nicholas Clark).
+ [CODE] Optimisation: Use the internal constant _CAN_PCS to optimise
+ out things that can't happen pre 5.10 (Nicholas Clark).
+
+1.18 2009.08.18 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [CODE] Optimisation: Generate perl version-dependent regexps once,
+ rather than every call to import (Nicholas Clark).
+ [CODE] Optimisation: Convert perl version check in import() from
+ run time to compile time (Nicholas Clark).
+ [TESTS] Re-added pseudohashes tests that were removed at some point
+ from bleadperl (Nicholas Clark).
+
+1.17 2008.10.29 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [TESTS] Moved the TRAILING test from t/constant.t to t/more-tests.t
+ in order to avoid FAIL reports when executed with Test::More 0.82+
+
+1.16 2008.09.21 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [DOC] The copyright section is also the license.
+ [DOC] Added a SEE ALSO section.
+ [DOC] Converted files to UTF-8.
+ [DOC] Improved the description in README.
+
+1.15 2007.12.31 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [TEST] Adjusted t/constant.t to how empty prototypes are reported
+ among different versions of Perl (thus fixing the FAIL reports for
+ Perl 5.8.0 to 5.8.3).
+
+1.14 2007.12.27 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [DIST] CPAN-RT#31627: Specify core install dir in Build.PL.
+ Thanks to Michael G Schwern.
+
+1.13 2007.12.27 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [CODE] Merged changed blead@32338: UNITCHECK is only a keyword
+ post 5.009 (Nicholas Clark).
+ [DIST] Copied the sysnopsis into eg/
+
+1.12 2007.11.06 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [DIST] CPAN-RT#30460: The module must be installed in core, not in
+ site (because it get shadowed). Thanks to Imacat.
+
+1.11 2007.09.25 SAPER (Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni)
+ [CODE] Fixed code and tests so everything work under Perl 5.005.
+ [DOC] Some Pod nits. Added information about current maintainers.
+
+1.10 2007.04.19
+ blead@30980: C3 MRO support (Brandon L Black).
+ blead@30824: Small fix for Symbian (Jarkko Hietaniemi).
+
+1.09 2007.03.13
+ blead@30561: Inform constant.pm about UNITCHECK (Joshua ben Jore).
+
+1.08 2007.02.13
+ blead@30255: Remove some debugging code (Nicholas Clark).
+ blead@26502: Use Internals::inc_sub_generation() to invalidate
+ cached methods (Nicholas Clark).
+
+1.07 2005.12.26
+ blead@26487: Rework constant.pm to take advantage of the space
+ savings of proxy constant subroutines whenever it can (Nicholas Clark).
+ blead@26485: Factore caller() call out of the loop (Nicholas Clark).
+
+1.06 2005.12.24
+ blead@26483: Using a hash reference rather than a hash can save a
+ hash copy (Nicholas Clark).
+
+1.05 2004.11.12
+ blead@23497: Silence an unnecessary warning (Anno Siegel).
+
+1.04 2001.07.29
+ blead@12097, 11473: Major POD rewrite (Ilmari Karonen).
+
+1.03 2001.06.29
+ blead@8240: Declare multiple constants at once (Casey West).
+
+1.02 2000.03.13
+ blead@5702: Use warnings::register (Paul Marquess).
+ blead@5463: Relax restrictions on constant names a bit (M J T Guy).
+ blead@4905: STOP blocks have been renamed to CHECK (Gurusamy Sarathy).
+
+1.01 1999.12.28
+ blead@4718: New version of constant.pm from Tom Phoenix; added Tom's
+ notes to perldelta; added STOP, DESTROY and AUTOLOAD to specials list
+ blead@2029: Restore sanity to "constant" references (Gurusamy Sarathy).
+
+
+Full history:
+ http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/l/lib/constant.pm
+